SLOANE
I woke up to darkness and the quiet that settled over the mansion after midnight, that specific kind of stillness where every sound felt louder than it should.
I lay there for a second staring at the ceiling, trying to remember why my chest felt both heavy and light at the same time, and then it all came back. The courtroom….the Chief Justice. The DNA results on that screen. Garrett in handcuffs. Cade's laugh when Kade threw him up in the air. I smiled at the ceiling and let it wash over me for a moment before I peeled back the blanket and swung my legs over the side of the bed.
I padded down the hallway in my oversized sleep shirt and my bare feet and pushed Cade's door open just wide enough to see him. He was flat on his stomach with one arm dangling off the side of the mattre
